[David C. Matthews]

Er, Sir DCM, 2000 Olympics were Sydney, 2004 was Athens.

Oops!  :-[  Thanks for the correction.

[David C. Matthews]

Oh yeah, Ayers donated the political equivalent of pocket money to Obama's campaign for re-election to the Illinois senate, a;long with lots and lots of other people.  If anyone is a terrorist sympathiser, it's the Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Chicago, bcause he's been a respected Professor there for years.  Go there and demonstrate if you're so upset about Ayers.

That Ayers donated money to Obama's campaign is the least of their associations (which are just now coming to light via the mainstream "news" media).  Ayers may not be a bomb-thrower anymore, but he still hates America with a white-hot passion.  Factor in Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright (over twenty years and BO never heard Wright preach "God damn America!" or any of his other despicable statements???), Michael Pfleger, and others, and it's obvious that Obama is entirely too comfortable in the company of folks who (to put it politely) don't have this country's best interests at heart.  (In his first(!) autoboigraphy, Dreams From My Father, Obama baldly states that, in college, still looking for an "identity", he specifically sought out as friends student radicals and Marxist professors.  And I have not heard him repudiate those associations or the political views he learned from them.)

Look, I'l do a deal with you.  I intend staying here for the next 4 years.  If Obama becomes President, I'll return to this topic in 4 years' time.  If the US has become a Marxist state, with official press and state TV only, people disappearing in the night for criticising the regime, and sectret police on every corner, then I'll beg for forgiveness and agree with anything you say on politics.  If, however, this doesn't happen, and all this scare stuff ends up being just scare stuff, then you have to apologise to me. 

As for me, you've got a deal.  And please believe me, I hope I am the one apologizing to you.  Because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.

[David C. Matthews]

Thanks for the heads up… but I have to pass on all the ghost and Bigfoot shows. I started watching SF channel when *gasp* it had science fiction tv shows and movies. Lately it has been more horror movies and faux documentary shows. It's a real shame, but I suppose tv networks reach that point eventually.

This is happening at a lot of cable channels: they're no longer reliable about offering what their "theme" is supposed to be.  (For me, the biggest disgrace is Sci-Fi showing pro-wrestling!)  TV Land no longer shows the vintage and classic TV shows they were founded on, Cartoon Network is edging into live-action programs, A&E is now exclusively reality shows and crime dramas (sometimes both in the same show)…

[David C. Matthews]

Let me tell you my situation: When I first published Satin Steele as a small-press Xerox-zine back in the early 1990's, my backstory for her had her as a high-school student (named Janet Steele) and gymnast, slated to be on the US Olympic women's gymnastics team going to the 1984 Games in LA.  (A tragic traffic accident on the way to the airport would inflict a broken leg on Janet, and take her father's life, preventing Janet's participation in the Olympics.)

Now that some 15 or so years have passed since those days, I'd have to update her "history" to make it the 2004 Summer games in Sydney, or something.  😮

[David C. Matthews]

Euww, sorry to hear about the tooth, but happy that you had a good time, and welcome back!

[David C. Matthews]

Heh.  I've been toying with doing a similar type of drawing myself.

Funny that most of the same people  who don't think Palin has enough experience to be President don't seem to have that same concern about Obama (who has even less executive experience than the Alaska governor)…  makes me think the issue isn't experience at all…

And I haven't seen any evidence yet that a McCain – Palin administration will turn the US into a "reactionary, fundamentalist Christian state."  I AM scared to death, however, that an Obama presidency, aided and abetted by a Democrat-controlled Congress and the mainstream "news" media cheerleading from the sidelines, will plunge America into a Marxist nightmare from which it may never recover.

[David C. Matthews]

Guys, come on! Iris clearly had the most complete package. She either was, or was close to being the best developed in every single body part. Taken as a whole, her physique was the hands down winner. I'm struggling to understand the justifications any of you have for not aknowledging that. Maybe her face isn't pretty enough for you? Maybe her hair isn't blond enough for you? Maybe her skin isn't white enough for you? There is no good reason for it.As far as being the perennial favorite that the judges MUST reward. That's crazy. In the Ms. I the judges penalized her big time. Her comeback in the ms. O was a well deserved victory that places her among the elite in the history of the sport.

You make a good point.  Bodybuilding competitions are not beauty contests.  Yeah, I like to see a winner have an attractive face as well, but that's not supposed to be part of the judging criteria.

It's OK to prefer one woman over another because of facial beauty, but to say the judges should have given the title to the most beautiful face is to make a mockery of women's bodybuilding.  And yes, the judges themselves have made mockeries of the sport in the past…

I haven't seen any photos from the Ms. O, so I can't say whether I agree with the results.

[David C. Matthews]

But if you act within the next 15 minutes they'll DOUBLE your order!!!  ;D

[David C. Matthews]

Actors shouldn't be needed to save candidates either.

That's true.  I liked how Tom Hanks delivered his endorsement of Barack Obama, though; he followed it up with a joke about how (paraphrased, because I'm too lazy to look up the actual quote) "because I'm a celebrity, you should all go and vote for him because I told you to!"

Why do we have to always discuss politics on this forum?  Especially when practically 90% of the users seem to be Republican here.

90%?  I sure don't see them posting here in those kinds of numbers.  Must be that there "silent majority" I hear tell about…

And here's a blasphemy moment:

But I never thought Lynda Carter was "all that."  Wonder Woman on TV?  That was just corny.

I thought she was pretty cute "back in the day".  But I look at the shows now, and she's much too skinny to make those feats of strength look even remotely believable.  Not that there was much on that show that was believable… but a little "corn" now and again is fun.

[David C. Matthews]

Speaking of Lynda Carter, this is interesting…
http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/09/17/wonder-woman-vs-sarah-palin/

Oh crud… another Hollywood idiot heard from.  And Carter just proved she knows less about WW than she does about Palin.  (WW certainly didn't come to the "world of Men" with a message of "live and let live"!)

I swear, I've never seen a group of people as brain-dead stupid as Hollywood celebrities.  (With few exceptions, of course.)

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